Guillaume de Machaut - Ce qui soustient moy (trans. Steven Watson)

[@EllySpace]

Skilfully played. Fantastic performance, Steven! 🎸🎸🎸 Greetings from Elly ❤😍🎧

[@gilbertwalker3222]

That colour change at 0:42 is delightful.

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Thanks, glad details like this come across!

[@speusippus]

I've long been a fan of Machaut. Lovely playing, Steven.

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

@@speusippus I knew his mass well, but these songs not at all. Such wonderful music. Thanks Bryan.

[@speusippus]

@@StevenWatsonMusic As a young guitarist in first year music, they handed me a lute and put me in an early music ensemble playing Machaut with a racket! I was pretty much lost!

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

​@@speusippusthat does sound fun though!

[@bertalink]

Enjoyed the warm tone you achieved. And the piece of course

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Thanks Bert!

[@thomasmagnac997]

Lovin'

[@thomasmagnac997]

Can I get the score?

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Thanks Thomas. email me at [e-mail] and I can send the pdf

[@kithg]

That’s beautiful. So well done. Started my morning with a smile. Thank you!

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Pleasure! It is such beautiful music.

[@tateharmann3057]

Lovely! That is some OLD music :)

[@boboloko]

Depends on your age. I remember when this album first dropped during the black plague. It was worse than COVID believe it or not.

[@tateharmann3057]

@@boboloko Haha of course! How silly of me to have used such a relative term as "OLD".

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Thanks Tate. There's still over 400 years of written music before Machaut!

[@Nylon_and_Gut-MatteoLaurenzi]

amazing!!!!

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Grazie Matteo!

[@PavelBortnik]

Wow! Such a strange music! I like how you choose your repertoire, Steven.

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

@@PavelBortnik you play some unusual repertoire as well, Pavel! Yes, I like finding strange things to play. Glad you enjoy it.

[@Leunam49]

Hermoso sonido para esta pieza. Suena como un laúd.

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Gracias! The capo helps.

[@pacsun-guitar]

So beautiful!👍👍👍

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Glad you think so!

[@Josh.Vanjani]

Nicely done, Steven! I also appreciate the simplicity of two voices. There’s a Gaspar Sanz piece which is originally for two voices that Werner made into three on his arrangement. I bet this would work well on the baritone ukulele too.

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

I'll have to look up Werner's arrangement. I am wondering about some of these very early music on uke, but it's always a challenge getting the notes to fit!

[@Josh.Vanjani]

@@StevenWatsonMusic Yes, you're quite right about "fitting in" the notes. What I've done with mine is to raise the octave of notes that don't fit. 99% of people already aren't familiar with the music (😂), and they don't notice there's been an alteration. I'd also recommend the original Sanz manuscript from the Spanish library, since you can read Italian tablature.

[@Remi-B-Goode]

Listened previously. This is an amazing idea. So i suppose you tune de g in f# + capo 3 i see. Would you like to have a renaissance lute or are you fine like as this? Both are ok..and guitar is more easy imao. Anyway, wonderful transcriptions of our good old friend Guillaume de Machaut. I have a few cd of his music, missas, motets, monodies etc. I learned about medieval and renaisssance music at university in musicology. I didnt know there was something valuable before Bach, it was a revelation. Blabla

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Very pleased you liked it, Remi! No, I used standard tuning. I've tried lutes but have never yet got on with them (I adore listening to them of course). When I first discovered music pre-Bach it was a revelation for me too! Especially pre sixteenth-century, the soundworld can feel so familiar, so direct, yet in other ways so enjoyably weird.

[@Remi-B-Goode]

@StevenWatsonMusic you mean 'unfamiliar' 🤙or maybe not , it s familiar also yes